Speaker 1: Look, I'm going to be straight with you. What I
Speaker 1: am about to teach you in the next fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: will fundamentally change how you see every human interaction for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life. Your father didn't teach you this,
Speaker 1: your teacher's sure as hell didn't, and most men will
Speaker 1: go to their graves never understanding these principles. Five hundred
Speaker 1: years ago, a man named Niccolo Machiavelli wrote down the
Speaker 1: most dangerous truths about human nature ever documented, truths so
Speaker 1: uncomfortable that his book was banned by the Catholic Church.
Speaker 1: Truths so powerful that every world leader studies them in
Speaker 1: private while publicly condemning them.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing that will blow your mind. These
Speaker 2: aren't theories. This is the operating manual for how humans
Speaker 2: actually work. Not how we pretend to work, not how
Speaker 2: we wish we worked, how we actually work. So why
Speaker 2: didn't your father teach you this simple because his father
Speaker 2: didn't teach him. Because we've been programmed to believe that
Speaker 2: understanding power makes you evil, that strategic thinking makes you manipulative,
Speaker 2: that seeing reality clearly makes you cynical. Well, I'm about
Speaker 2: to make you cynical and powerful and dangerous because ignorance
Speaker 2: isn't virtue, it's weakness. Here's the first truth your father
Speaker 2: never told you. People are not rational actors seeking their
Speaker 2: best interests. They are emotional creatures seeking to avoid pain
Speaker 2: and discomfort. Machiavelli wrote, men judged generally more by the
Speaker 2: eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and
Speaker 2: few can feel. Translation, people make decisions based on what
Speaker 2: looks good, not what is good. Watch this play out everywhere.
Speaker 2: Your friend who asks for dating advice but ignores it
Speaker 2: because it requires effort. Your co worker who complains about
Speaker 2: being broke while buying daily Starbucks. The woman who says
Speaker 2: she wants a nice guy but consistently chooses the opposite.
Speaker 2: Here's what this means for you. Never try to logic
Speaker 2: someone into something. Appeal to their emotions, their image, their
Speaker 2: immediate gratification. Want to influence someone, don't tell them what's
Speaker 2: best for them, Show them what makes them feel better
Speaker 2: about themselves. Most men try to win arguments with facts.
Speaker 2: Alpha males win by understanding that facts don't change minds.
Speaker 2: Feelings do. The man who masters this controls every room
Speaker 2: he enters. Your father probably taught you that loyalty is everything.
Speaker 2: That you should be loyal to your friends, your company,
Speaker 2: your woman. Machiavelli had different ideas. He said, since love
Speaker 2: and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose
Speaker 2: between them, it is far safer to be feared than love.
Speaker 1: Here's the brutal reality.
Speaker 3: Loyalty without reciprocity is just being used. Think about the
Speaker 3: most successful men you know. Are they blindly loyal? Hell no,
Speaker 3: They're strategically loyal. They understand that loyalty is a two
Speaker 3: way street, and the moment someone breaks that contract, all
Speaker 3: bets are off. That friend who only calls when he
Speaker 3: needs something, he's not loyal to you. That company that
Speaker 3: preaches family values while laying people off, they are not
Speaker 3: loyal to you. That woman who keeps her options open
Speaker 3: while expecting your commitment, she's not loyal to you. Be
Speaker 3: generous with your loyalty, but ruthless about withdrawing it. A
Speaker 3: man who continues to give loyalty where it's not returned
Speaker 3: isn't noble.
Speaker 2: He's a fool, and fools get walked on.
Speaker 3: Machiavelli's lesson inspire loyalty through strength and value, not through
Speaker 3: weakness and need. Here's something your father definitely didn't teach you.
Speaker 3: Your reputation isn't about being liked, It's about being respected.
Speaker 3: Machiavelli understood this better than any one. Every One sees
Speaker 3: what you appear to be. Few experience what you really are.
Speaker 3: Translation perception is reality in human interactions. Most men think
Speaker 3: authenticity means showing everything about yourself wrong. Strategic authenticity means
Speaker 3: controlling what people see while remaining true to your core.
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting. The men who complain about being
Speaker 3: misunderstood are usually the ones with the weakest reputations. They
Speaker 3: think if people just knew the real them, everything would change.
Speaker 3: Here's the truth. They can't handle. The real you isn't
Speaker 3: what matters. What matters is the version of you that
Speaker 3: serves your goals. Want to be seen as competent. Never
Speaker 3: complain about problems only present solutions. Want to be seen
Speaker 3: as valuable. Don't always be available. Scarcity creates value. Want
Speaker 3: to be seen as powerful. Never explain your decisions to
Speaker 3: people who can't affect your life. Consistency plus mystery plus
Speaker 3: controlled vulnerability equals magnetic reputation. Your father probably taught you
Speaker 3: to avoid conflict, to be peaceful, to try to get
Speaker 3: along with everyone. Machiavelli said the opposite. There is no
Speaker 3: avoiding war. It can only be postponed to the advantage
Speaker 3: of others. What this really means conflict isn't something that
Speaker 3: happens to you. It's something that's always happening around you,
Speaker 3: and if you're not prepared, you're already losing. Every successful
Speaker 3: man I know understands this principle. They're not looking for fights,
Speaker 3: but they're never surprised by them. They prepare for confrontation
Speaker 3: during times of peace. In your career, someone is always
Speaker 3: trying to take your position. In relationships, there's always another
Speaker 3: man willing to take your place. In social situations, there's
Speaker 3: always someone testing your boundaries. Don't start wars, but always
Speaker 3: be ready to finish them. The man who is prepared
Speaker 3: for conflict rarely has to engage in it. Why because
Speaker 3: people sense his readiness and choose easier targets. Build your
Speaker 3: skills when you don't need them, Save money when you're
Speaker 3: making it, network when you don't need favors. Stay in
Speaker 3: shape when you're not being threatened. Machiavelli's wisdom. The lion
Speaker 3: cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend
Speaker 3: himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to
Speaker 3: recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves.
Speaker 1: Be both.
Speaker 3: Here's the biggest lie. Your father probably told you just
Speaker 3: be nice and people will like you. Wrong, Machiavelli understood
Speaker 3: the difference between being nice and being good. Being nice
Speaker 3: is about avoiding discomfort. Being good is about doing what's right,
Speaker 3: even when it's hard. You want to know why women
Speaker 3: say they want nice guys but date bad boys because
Speaker 3: they confuse nice with weak. They confuse agreeable with good.
Speaker 3: Nice guys avoid difficult conversations. Good men have them. Nice
Speaker 3: guys say what people want to hear. Good men say
Speaker 3: what people need to hear. Nice guys seek approval. Good
Speaker 3: men earn respect. Look at any powerful man CEO's President's champions.
Speaker 3: Are they nice? Not in the way most people define it.
Speaker 3: They're fair, they're just. They help others, But they're not
Speaker 3: people pleasers. They're not afraid of disappointing people who don't matter.
Speaker 3: Strength with kindness is attractive. Weakness with niceness is repulsive.
Speaker 3: You can be kind without being weak. You can be
Speaker 3: good without being nice. Macchiavelli's insight Men are so simple
Speaker 3: and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a
Speaker 3: deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. Don't be
Speaker 3: the victim, be the man who sees clearly.
Speaker 1: So here we are. I've just given you five truths
Speaker 1: that will make you see human nature differently forever. Your
Speaker 1: father didn't teach you these because he probably didn't know
Speaker 1: them himself. Our society doesn't teach them because they want
Speaker 1: men who are predictable, manageable, and weak. But you're not
Speaker 1: weak anymore. You understand that people are emotional, not rational,
Speaker 1: that loyalty must be earned and reciprocated, that reputation is strategic,
Speaker 1: that conflict is inevitable, that strength and goodness are not opposites.
Speaker 1: This isn't about becoming manipulative. It's about becoming unmovable. It's
Speaker 1: about understanding the game everyone else is playing while pretending
Speaker 1: they are not playing it. It is better to be
Speaker 1: feared than loved if you cannot be both, but above all,
Speaker 1: never be ignored. You now have the knowledge to never
Speaker 1: be ignored again. Use it wisely, and remember I probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't have taught you this. But here we are